Romance and Adventure
IK his greatest role since “What Price Glory,” Vidor McLaglen is sharing starring honours with Freddie Bartholomew in “Professional Soldier.” Based on a story by Daniot. Runyon, “ Professional Soldier” use; the racy, bantering Runyon dialogue in a story full of romance, comedy and ad veil t ure.
Because he loves the sound o' musketry and the smell of gun-powder McLaglen in “Professional Soldier’ permits himself to be inveigled inti a revolution in a tiny European King dom.
Assigned to the task of kidnapping the King, he discovers that his vidin is a grand 10-year-old lad. In theit mountain hideaway, McLaglen and the boy monarch strike up a friend ship while McLaglen’s lieutenant .Michael Whalen, and Gloria Stuart develop a romantic interest in each of her. The climax conies when the young king is kidnapped by a rival faction ara threatened with death. Then, for tie first time, McLaglen forgets that h< fights only for money, and stages hi fiercest battle for somebody lie love; The film was directed by Ttiv Garnett the man who brought “China Seas’ to the screen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 13
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183Romance and Adventure Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 13
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